In no other sport are there as many nuances and subtleties. Games are won because runs are produced, or prevented. Runs are produced by doing things like getting ahead in the count and hitting to the right part of the field to move runners along.

In short, it’s a game that requires patience — on the field and off, in many cases.

Right, Seacoast Mavericks?

The newest team to call the city home will make it official on Monday, during a press conference at Demeters Steakhouse. After two summers using Spaulding High School as their home field — and ranking at or near the bottom of the FCBL in attendance — the Mavs are set to play half of their 54-game schedule in 2013 at Leary Field in downtown Portsmouth.

“As a league, we’re real excited about the opportunities the Mavericks have in going to Portsmouth,” said FCBL commissioner Chris Hall. “From year one, it was where we wanted (the team) to be.

“It’s a crown jewel of a location. It produces an opportunity for the team to be successful and can drive people to Portsmouth in the summertime.”

The team never generated interest or crowds in the two years it called Rochester home. Average attendance last year was listed at 251 a game — eighth out of nine FCBL teams — and there were weeknights when they weren’t 50 people on the grounds, excluding players, coaches and staff.

Leary Field was the preferred venue as the Mavs prepared for their inaugural season in 2011. It was a short drive from owner Dave Hoyt’s USA Training Centers Facility in Newington and in the heart of a city that was in the midst of unprecedented success at both the high school (national-record 89-game win streak) and youth levels.

But the city wasn’t about to displace the American Legion and youth teams that called Leary home. Last summer, the Mavs got approval to play six of their home games at Leary and were pleased with the results, with the attendance about 100 a game better than their season average.

“That’s a huge factor,” said Mavericks president Mike Daboul.

The FCBL’s nine teams share a corner of the country, but there’s a wide discrepancy in venues. The Nashua Silver Knights, Brockton Rox, Pittsfield Suns, North Shore Navigators and Old Orchard Beach Raging Tide all play in stadiums built for minor-league teams that no longer call the stadiums home. All but the Tide averaged 1,000 fans or better.

The other teams — the Mavericks, the Wachusett Dirt Dawgs, the Martha’s Vineyard Sharks and the Torrington Titans — play in “homier” settings, where the selling points are the closeness to the field (and a high caliber of baseball) and the value.

It just never caught on in Rochester.

“If your attendance is two-, three-hundred people a night, and you’re doing everything you can, the only thing you can do is pack it up and do something else,” said Hall.

The move to Portsmouth is the culmination of a decade-long quest to bring summer collegiate baseball to the area.

A group of local men tried unsuccessfully to land an expansion franchise in the New England Collegiate Baseball League about 10 years ago. The Middletown Giants of the NECBL moved a home game to Winnacunnet High School to test the local market in 2003 before ultimately relocating to Holyoke, Mass.

In 2010, the NECBL’s Lowell All-Americans had Portsmouth on their short list of relocation destinations before settling on Old Orchard Beach, Maine.

As of now, this is a one-year relationship between the Mavericks and the City of Portsmouth. But both sides are eager to see this become a long-term partnership.

“We’ll see how it goes this year,” said city recreation director Rus Wilson. “If everything goes well we’ll talk about more years after that.”

At this point, it looks like win-win. The Mavs get the home they wanted all along. The city gets roughly $36,000 in field improvements from the team in 2013 alone.